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Kirn ii ram ,f.:. m a m ;. '.v .. . - 'i "OL. II. 1 1 SOUTHERN CALUMNIA ' - j ( Some Important Happenings in j I ........ -y the South íl THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS An Assortment of Newsy Event That Occurred in our Midst That Cannot Fail to Interest. The tax levy at San fixed at 60 cents. . Pedro has been The last horse car line has been elec- tricised at Pasadena . The Chino sugar "factory is paying out 22,000 per month' for labor. National City has organized a wheel-:' mans club with thirty members. The Lima Bean. Association of Ven- tpra is holding its product at $2.10 per satal. The city and county tax rate of Santa Ana is to be $2.65. The Orange county rate will be $1.25. Governor McCord of Arizona has a new private secretary, his son, C. J. McCord of Wisconsin. ' The. Brewster' sanitarium has been s. destroyed by fire at San Diego. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $5,000. V Misa Márv Johnston, a Pomona school '.earner, was burned to death in the ,A New Castle, Colo., wreck. At a mass meeting held at East Riverside last week, Highgrove was chosen as the new name for that locality. 7 A Phoenix, Ariz., firm has secured 1 5000 pennies for the purpose of intro- "r duciug them into the trade of that city. A new mining camp has been estab-1 lished at Ballarat, Inyo county. It is fire months eld, and has a population : of 300. , :i The Orange county supervisors are ; preparing to inaugurate some extensive ''k road sprinkling about Fulierton and ' Anaheim. ; C- . ..The tax rate in San Diego this year . --JUl be $1.57 on the $100; and in the V-, . íbenty" $1.97; making a total of $3.45 jn the f 1UU valuation oi properly. Next 'month the first crop of oysters will be gathered from the San Pedro beds. One man has twelve acres planted and expects to get . 500 bushels to the acre. 'i The board of education in San Bernardino has reduced salaries and other expenses so as to cut down the amount used for school purposes $6000 over last year. Echo is the latest postoffice for Arizona. It is in the Canada del Oro country, .and the latter name being to lone to suit the postal authorities, Echo was substituted. The San Diego Brewing company manufactured 1,875 barrels of beer during August, and shipped away 1,560 barrels. This means a revenue to the government of $1,560 in stamps. The board of supervisors of Ventura county have directed George C. Powers, civil engineer, to prepare specifications for constructing a bridge of steel and wood over tne f?an ta Clara river. The Southern Pacific train that comes up from Santa- Monica at 3 :45 is a flier. It majv no stop until University, 13 ! W. 'V$ftix1tiitZd that station is called in 15 'r- ?yOiinutes from the time of starting. The building of the Children's Home . T á 1 . , 1 I 1 1 "Cieiv in iiOB, Angeles is m ue caneu n V ictona nonie, in recognition oí a gift of $1000 made by the English resi - dents of that city as a Victoria jubilee memorial.. The owners of oil wells in Los Angeles are resorting to the practice of shooting wells Dy aynamue. ine pracuoo dangerous, because of fires and the city authorities propose to enforce the ordinance against it. , John W. Kapus, the young broker who defrauded Los Angeles citizens of thousands of dollars by selling, them bogus claims on the Pacific Coast Steamship company, has left for Chicago and his victims are mourning his departure. T. B. Starr, a New York millionaire jeweler is coming to Southern California f mm Onlnradn Springs in a special train. V. '.ringing with him his pet cow in a ' i .'J Wagner car built for the purpose. He ".". rjj, will open the winter at Santa Barbara. í-.;' 1 ""Ehe citric-acid factory of North On- t '.1 ' V is approaching completion. The Vng ranks with the average orange tpg house in size and appearance, -spur has been put in from the San Bernardino papers claim that icala Water company is preparing $5,000,000 on the water devei- ín Liytle Ureex canon, it is to built seven large reservoirs e water enough to irrigate 100,- S. lifornia Construction company c"id "V baa hujliy Deen awarueu tne contract the construction of the third gun em- A V ICHIl HUb ab xiaimnb yuii jjo kjou ego, The stone for the fortification -'.".sjsj-ill be supplied from the Sweetwater arries. Delivery win oegin as soon V, . 'ill xcavations can be completed, which is now in progress. ook, Ariz., is now a very bower weet odors. An epidemic truck, the town recently, and IIOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897. a 'ar is on between the citizens and the sassy little brutes. While the citizens are lively with their fusillade, it may be added that the skunks are not much behind with one peculiarly and most effectively their own. The Lower Californian, published at Ensenada, is authority for the statement that the War Department has designated the Ensenada district as the headquarters for a troop of Cavalry. The troop is to come from the City of Mexico. The Mexican government has granted the Pirámide Mining company of Lower California a patent to thirty acres of land, about sixty miles belowjTia Juana, upon which are located a number of very rich placer gold mineB. The Santa Fe is making great preparations for its "limited," which will again be put in service on September 15. This train will consist entirely of vesti-buled sleeping, dining and drawing-room cars, and will make the run from Los Angeles to Chicago in seventy-two hours. The train will leave that city twice a week until near the end of the year, but through the latter part of December and during January and Febru ary of next year it will be run three times a week. A party of Southern Pacific officials has departed for Mexico for -an inspection trip over the Sonora railway, and it is rumored that their inspection of the property is to be followed by the transfer of the road by the Santa Fe to the Southern Pacific company. The Sonora railway has been traded by the Santa Fe for the line between Mojave and the Needles, belonging to the southern Pacific, hut operated for many years by the Santa Fe under a lease and contract of purchase, but a formal transfer has not yet been made. The strong attraction of the Yuma penitentiary for the citizens of Arizona may be due in part to the opportunities afforded for acquiring an entirely new and improved variety of jag. It is re ported that the prisoners smoke mara guana, a Kind ot weed louna in soutn-ern Arizona, which seems to combine the delectable qualities of opium and whisky. The effect of using maraguana is said to be "hilarious intoxication The will of Dr. Edgar, a pioneer of Southern California, who died recently, contains the following bequests to local institutions: Historical society of Southern California $1500; Roman Catholic Orphans' Heme of Los Angeles, $250 : Protestant Orphans' Home, $250 ; Ladies' Benevolent scjiety, $500; commissioners of the SoHiers' Home near Washington, D. C, $2XX); board of fire commissioners of Los Angeles, for the benefit of the firemen. $500. He also bequeathes $500 each -o the public libraries of Los Angeles and San Bernar dino. Notice of intention t build and arti cles of incorporation of the Prescott and Eastern railroad nave Deen niea with the Arizona territorial secretary The new road .-which las already been surveyed, iétorun iron near Prescott to Big Bug, a:distance f about thirty miles. The road will b a feeder of the Santa Fe, Prescott an! Phoenix, and the incorporators are anong the stockholders of the main roid, comprising N. K. Fairbank, Frank M. Murphy. D. M. .Ferry, C. C. Boven,;Simon J. Murphy, J. Morton and Gtorge W. Kreb- i in'., r t The well-known poet of the people, Prof. James G. Clark, cied at his home in Pasadena beptemrerl. tor several months he had been confined to his bed. He was bórn in Coeslantia, N. Y., June 28, 1830, and at the time of his death he . was 6Í years of age. Among the poems that go to make his memory green are The Children of the i Battle Field. Fremont"! Battle Hymn, and Tjie People's Batto Hymn. Two ; of his children survive jim, one living in St. Paul and the ther, James G. j Clark, jr., in Los Angelis. WASHINGTON NOTES. The postoffice department has decided to change the 2-cent 'skmps from carmine to green, to corispond with the color on the stamped evelopes. President McKinley has returned to Washington, and it is xpected that the Cuban question will egage his immediate attention. The residential policy is expected to be the very opposite of active intervention., ;- The state departmet is informed that the standard 24-foot' Jnited States ensign, which went dow with the Vandalia when that war easel was wrecked at Apia, Samoa, has een recovered and presented to the Unted States consul's office at Apia. j The documented cerchan t marine of the United States iJune last numbered 22,633 vessels of!,769,020 gross tons, an increase of 65,0 tons over 1896, and a decrease of 25 vessels. The tonnage of the AtlanU and gulf coasts is 2,647,796, decrea of 20,000 tons. The tonnage of the gmt lakes is 1,410,103 tons, an increase i 86,000 tons. The Pacific coast tohnge was practically stationary. j It is stated thai S. X. D. North oi Boston has been fleeted as superintendent of the next census, and that his appointment wil? be made as soon as the necessary le&lation can be enacted. The president issaid to favor the establishment of apermanent bureau of census, and is Hely to express some views on that suject in his next message to Congresa PACIFIC COAST NEWS Important Information Gathered Around the Coast. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Summary of I.ate Events That Are Boiled Down to Suit our Busy Readers. Alameda county has the largest hop crop in its history. Grape pickers up north are getting $1 a day and board or 10 a month more than last vear. The famous Oakland water front case has been decided by the supreme court adversely to the city. A Napa cannery has had to refuse $25,000 worth of orders because of the unusual demands upon it. The title to 160 acres of land in the city of Livermore has been attacked in the Alameda county probate court. The Manufacturers and Producers' Association of San Francisco are compiling a directory of all their members, as well as of all the products of California.Wheat is moving from coast points very freely bound ior the Continent. In the past seven days 22 cargoes have gone from San Francisco, and Portland reports 548,986 bushels shipped. ' Correspondent Suovil thinks $1500 in work and dynamite will make a good trail over the Alaska mountains. The New York World provides the money and the miners are doing the work. Statistics compiled at Tacoma show that upwards of 20,000 people, representing every State in the Union ex- . : o i. 1 i; . I 1 f, " y'""u r aireauy per- rouiiK p.i.H to go to vue runuyie next spring. Washington has made an immense pack of Salmon, one company alone í.ont; o;m,..i t;5. fji,.. inconsequence the market prices of ..nn.j ..un fhi. ,;if k UUBJSfu OU J VUi "Till UV( bnnwn Pope Leo XIII, through Cardinal 1 Rampolla and Archbishop Kearie, has signified his intention of presenting to the Stanford University Library an ex- pensive bound copy of the catalogue of and makepopularCaliforniadriedfruits the famous Vatican library. 0f all kinds, grapes, raisins and wines, Fourteen returned Klondykers reach- and thereby create a demad for them ed Seattle, bringing about $1,000 apiece, where none has heretofore existed. All agree that the coming winter will Also to induce beet sugar manufactories see scurvy, starvation and death slong and various other industries to locate the Yukon. Nobodv is getting tlm ugh . ,D that valley, increasing its population, by the land route, and many are coming ' ila industries, the demand for its pro-home, j ducts, and adventures of all sorts that T, ' . . i 1 . -iii are beneficial and will promote and se- I hprp hfia napn fit lata finnou un lila ! . opium mysteriously smuggled into Fol- i som prison. A roll of opium a coupie of inches long was found in a hollow place in the drawbead on one of the cars of the quarry railroad. The mystery i thus solved. ' John A. Pirtle of Los Angeles and his j tnat thu vear lhere will be several elec-associates have obtained a 50-vear fran- ; tl0ns neld ln different places in the state, chise to transmit electrical power from ' and the question was whether such elec-the Kaweah river td the town of Visalia. 1 tlona and the selection of the election Work is to be commenced in three ! commissioners should be under the old months and the plant is to be com- J8 or under the law passed by the late pleted in a year. legislature. The opinion has a partic- " , . , , ular bearing on this citv and Sacra- The big forest fire which has been mento, besides one or two other cities raging ir1 the mountains about the head-: here elections will beheld this year, waters of the Carmel river, Monterey The Attorney-General 's opinion was county, for the past two weeks has at ; piven in refspon8e to an inquiry by last been checked. The loss in pastur- ; Mavor Hubbard of Sacramento. He age and dry feed for stock, as well as j,old8 that tne llew act ia inoperative valuable timber, is very heavy. j prior to 1808, and does not govern pri- The trouble over lots in Juneau, j mary elections held before that time. Alaska, has at last been decided by a 1 The Attorney-General maintains that decision of Judge Delaney. Possessory 1 primary officers can only be selected in rights of squatters who have improved a year in which a general election is to their holdings are held to be good against invasion. Titles given by the original locator are by the decision ren- ..... . j .., ...v,.. dered valid, even though the holders : - - Jt - i - j Surveys for the extension of the San Joaquin Valley railroad to Point Rich mond have been completed from that point to near Antioch. Work has also begun across the marsh from Stockton to the point of union. The surveying will be completed in time for the beginning of work on the bay branch of the road at the opening of the new year, when it is expected that the road will have reached Bakersfield. . Arrangements have been completed for a match between Goddard and Sharkey, to take place at San Francisco during the latter part of November. The National Athletic club of San Francisco offered a $10,000 purse for the match, but nothing definite has been settled in this regard, and articles have not been signed. Goddard is now in Ireland and will leave at once for this country. Sharkey is in San Francisco. By the decisive vote of 14 to 4 the regents of the University of California denied the application of the Hahnemann Medical college for affiliation with the State institution. Those who voted in favor of the proposition were Regents Budd, Jeter, John E. Budd and Foote. Those who voted against it were Regents Kellogg, Slack, Phelps, Denicke, Rowell, Martin, Houghton, Mrs. Hearst. Rodgers, Hallidie, Mayre, Wallace, Hellman and Reinstein. This action of the regenta ends a bitter and long-continued fight between the rival schools of medicine in favor of allopaths. I According to the report of Deputy Fish Commissioner Babbitt, the run of salmon in the rivera this fall is the largest for many years. The canneries have more fish than they can handle, and thousands of fish are spoiling for the want of proper facilities to handle them. From all accounts the pack this year is at least 60 per cent larger than it was last year. This fall the canneries have put up 23,000 cases as against 13,000 last fall. The total pick for the season will be about 41,600 in round num bers. All that is packed is that which is left over the market supply. The farmers have salted down large quantities this year. The great run may be accounted for by the excellent care taken to preserve the fish when on their way to the spawning grounds. William Price of McKeesport, Pa., is at Seattle, Wash., representing theheavily-capitalized company of Pennsylvani-ans who are to erect and operate a steel plant at Los Angeles. Mr. Price states that work wilt be commenced within sixty days and be pushed to completion. The prime object of the large plant which will be erected will be the manufacture of tin plates. The process will be started in a blast furnace and ended with the shipment of high-class tin plates to their destination.. An official report filed at the custom house at Port Townsend, Wash., Sep tember 13, by Inspector Webber, whose detail has been at Point Roberts for the past three months, shows -that the catch of the fishing season just closed is the largest ever known in the northwest. The Alaska packing company at Point Roberts put up 95,000 cases. Al-togeher 2,500,000 of fish were caught off the mouth of the Fraser river during the season, and nearly as many bump-back salmon were taken from the traps and left on mud flats to die and decay. As a result of the unexpectedly large run this Beason, fishermen predict a light run next season. Prices for fish range from 10 to 25 cents usually, but thifJ the fishermen were glad to ge at 3 cent . Recently a joint county organization representing Kings, Tulare, Kern and Fresno counties, was formed at Fresno, "ndef tl?e fclVe ftlí C111 .Callfra Developing Association. It elected offi- f i . . . ,-1 I, J CCTS asfollowB: President, Fulton G, Berry of Fresno; vice-president, Sena- tor S. C. Smith of Kern: secretary. John Reichman of Fresno; treasurer, Sus Mitchell of Tulare. It will be the purpose of . this association to exhibit '' cure better conditions. Atty.-Gen. W. F. Fitzgerald has rendered a very important opinion relative to the holding of primary elections this year. It is particularly important at the present time, in view of the fact be neltl. Secretary Alger is now engaged in the attempt to solve the questioin of how to tu )ie8 into the Klondyke gold j regions and thereby prevent the threat- eneu starvation 01 many miners. xne great Yukon river, which formed the main reliance of the miners as a means of getting supp'lies to Dawson, without doubt has already closed to naviagtion by boats, and a movement via Chilcoot is almost impossible. The problem, therefore is a hard one and has taxed the best thought of General Alger and the cabinet officers and the President, by whom the subject has been earnestly discussed. Now, however, it is believed by the Secretary that, by means of a novel character of transportation, supplies into the gold country may be provided, even in the midst of Alaskan winter. He has opened correspondence indirectly with a Chicago inventor, who nmkes locomotives specially adapted to the navigation of the Yukon when frozen thickly. With a few of these machines placed on the river it is hoped that a sufficient supply of food and other neccessary stores may be carried up the Yukon to relieve all distress among miners. The Secretary has already had some experience with this kind of locomotive, so that the scheme is not as radical an experimentas at first thought to he. At Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, Congregational people have established a camp, with tents, hammocks, etc., for the mothers and children of Chicago's river ward. Each party is allowed to remain a week, and the experiment is a great success. NUMBER 42 FROM FOREIGN LANDS. The treaty of peace between Turkev and Greece has been signed. Hon. Henry W. Sage, the well-known philanthropist, is dead, aged 83. Argentine is preparing a retaliatory tariff against the United States. Emperor Nicholas is desirous of pacifying the Poles. His recent visit to Warsaw was for that purpose. A special from Buenos Ayres says that it is feared that the harvest will be almost entirely destroyed by locusts. Andrew Carnegie has bought Ski bo castle, with 28,000 acres of Jhe best shooting and fishing land in Scotland.'. Germany will attempt retaliation against United States tariff rates by practical prohibition of the importation of meats from America. Prominent Guatemalan ' refugees, traveling for their health, arrived at San Francisco with accounts of political chaos in Central America. Prices in Japan are now steadily rising, orders on a large scale having been received from abroad by many of the foreign firms in Yokohama. Hawaii's legislature is believed to have ratified the annexation treaty, and thus to have increased the likelihood of favorable action by the United States senate. Two hundred miners who were fighting fire in a mine near Melbourne, Australia, were overcome with the fumes. Many dead bodies have been taken from the shaft. Advices from Honolulu are that the Ewa plantation has completed its sugar crop. The total output is 15,000 short tons, or 30,000,000 pounds for 189?, the heaviest sugar yield from any single plantation on the island. Acreage is now in for 16,000 tons next season. A Spanish cabinet crisis is likely to result from the action of the Bishop who objected to the looting of the church treasury. A horrible condition-at Havana has been caused by a lack of proper food. Eoborowsky, the Russian explorer, has discovered a place in Central Asia where no rain, but only enow, falls at any time throughout the year. This . . is in the Thibetan highlands, at an altitude of 17,800 feet. The thermometer on June 15 was 12 degrees below zero,. . centigrade. The Bank of England will pay 2,500,-000 to the India government for bills recently sold. Gobi shipments to America will come from France, while-Sydney is preparing a heavy shipment of gold for New York. The fact Is conceded that the gold to be sent to Amer- , ' ica can no longer be postponed. Telegraphic advices from the New-York Herald's correspondent at Rio de Janiero state that the government has cabled to the Rothschilds refusing their offer to lease the Greenwood railroad. The government holds that such a lease would be in opposition to the interests of the country. . -. The British forces are advancing against the revolting natives of India. The lower Mohmands have already yielded, but trouble is thought tobe : more serious than a mere revolt of na-ti ves, and the good faith of the ameer of ' ' Afghanistan is seriously questioned. Examination shows marks of the Rus- ,' "-sian bear's paw. -' In the provinces of Tula, Knosk and ' Moscow, Russia, owing to the drouth, winter wheat cannot be sown. The peasants have petitioned the throne to furnish free seeds to the sufferers, owing to the failure of crops. All grass has withered, cattle are dying, while destitution and distress prevail in these and adjoining provinces. . The treaty signed by the representatives of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador has gone into effect. The union is named the Republic of Central America, and the countries forming it take the name of states. The fusion of these states is regarded as of great consequence, especially as securing internal peace in Central America. . An attempt was made to assassinate President Diaz on September 16. He was going to a review of troops through a public park, when an Italian named Arroyo sprang from behind a bush and lunged at him with a poniard. The minister of war seized the man and flung him to the ground, when he was arrested. Diaz escaped injury. The would-be assassin was killed by a mob the following evening. The latest scandal in court circles has set all Europe by the ears. It is reported that the Guelph fund of sixty million marks has been squandered by Emperor William. The fund was the private fortune of the house of Hanover. The English royal family has some claim to it. Much feeling has been engendereil in royal circles. An exhausted carrier pigeon arrived at Logansport, Ind., bearing a message, partly obliterated, of which only -August zh, roie. Andree, could be deciphered. The steamer Belle of Memphisj a snag in the Mississippi river ' island, lust below Chester, 111 a hole forty feet long in he She sunk with ten feet of her decks. About 200 tons o, aboard was saved. f-V: í. i' t. r- 7 f: 7k r."V

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Kirn ii ram ,f.:. m a m ;. '.v .. . - 'i "OL. II. 1 1 SOUTHERN CALUMNIA ' - j ( Some Important Happenings in j I ........ -y the South íl THAT MAY PLEASE OUR READERS An Assortment of Newsy Event That Occurred in our Midst That Cannot Fail to Interest. The tax levy at San fixed at 60 cents. . Pedro has been The last horse car line has been elec- tricised at Pasadena . The Chino sugar "factory is paying out 22,000 per month' for labor. National City has organized a wheel-:' mans club with thirty members. The Lima Bean. Association of Ven- tpra is holding its product at $2.10 per satal. The city and county tax rate of Santa Ana is to be $2.65. The Orange county rate will be $1.25. Governor McCord of Arizona has a new private secretary, his son, C. J. McCord of Wisconsin. ' The. Brewster' sanitarium has been s. destroyed by fire at San Diego. Loss, $20,000; insurance, $5,000. V Misa Márv Johnston, a Pomona school '.earner, was burned to death in the ,A New Castle, Colo., wreck. At a mass meeting held at East Riverside last week, Highgrove was chosen as the new name for that locality. 7 A Phoenix, Ariz., firm has secured 1 5000 pennies for the purpose of intro- "r duciug them into the trade of that city. A new mining camp has been estab-1 lished at Ballarat, Inyo county. It is fire months eld, and has a population : of 300. , :i The Orange county supervisors are ; preparing to inaugurate some extensive ''k road sprinkling about Fulierton and ' Anaheim. ; C- . ..The tax rate in San Diego this year . --JUl be $1.57 on the $100; and in the V-, . íbenty" $1.97; making a total of $3.45 jn the f 1UU valuation oi properly. Next 'month the first crop of oysters will be gathered from the San Pedro beds. One man has twelve acres planted and expects to get . 500 bushels to the acre. 'i The board of education in San Bernardino has reduced salaries and other expenses so as to cut down the amount used for school purposes $6000 over last year. Echo is the latest postoffice for Arizona. It is in the Canada del Oro country, .and the latter name being to lone to suit the postal authorities, Echo was substituted. The San Diego Brewing company manufactured 1,875 barrels of beer during August, and shipped away 1,560 barrels. This means a revenue to the government of $1,560 in stamps. The board of supervisors of Ventura county have directed George C. Powers, civil engineer, to prepare specifications for constructing a bridge of steel and wood over tne f?an ta Clara river. The Southern Pacific train that comes up from Santa- Monica at 3 :45 is a flier. It majv no stop until University, 13 ! W. 'V$ftix1tiitZd that station is called in 15 'r- ?yOiinutes from the time of starting. The building of the Children's Home . T á 1 . , 1 I 1 1 "Cieiv in iiOB, Angeles is m ue caneu n V ictona nonie, in recognition oí a gift of $1000 made by the English resi - dents of that city as a Victoria jubilee memorial.. The owners of oil wells in Los Angeles are resorting to the practice of shooting wells Dy aynamue. ine pracuoo dangerous, because of fires and the city authorities propose to enforce the ordinance against it. , John W. Kapus, the young broker who defrauded Los Angeles citizens of thousands of dollars by selling, them bogus claims on the Pacific Coast Steamship company, has left for Chicago and his victims are mourning his departure. T. B. Starr, a New York millionaire jeweler is coming to Southern California f mm Onlnradn Springs in a special train. V. '.ringing with him his pet cow in a ' i .'J Wagner car built for the purpose. He ".". rjj, will open the winter at Santa Barbara. í-.;' 1 ""Ehe citric-acid factory of North On- t '.1 ' V is approaching completion. The Vng ranks with the average orange tpg house in size and appearance, -spur has been put in from the San Bernardino papers claim that icala Water company is preparing $5,000,000 on the water devei- ín Liytle Ureex canon, it is to built seven large reservoirs e water enough to irrigate 100,- S. lifornia Construction company c"id "V baa hujliy Deen awarueu tne contract the construction of the third gun em- A V ICHIl HUb ab xiaimnb yuii jjo kjou ego, The stone for the fortification -'.".sjsj-ill be supplied from the Sweetwater arries. Delivery win oegin as soon V, . 'ill xcavations can be completed, which is now in progress. ook, Ariz., is now a very bower weet odors. An epidemic truck, the town recently, and IIOLBROOK, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1897. a 'ar is on between the citizens and the sassy little brutes. While the citizens are lively with their fusillade, it may be added that the skunks are not much behind with one peculiarly and most effectively their own. The Lower Californian, published at Ensenada, is authority for the statement that the War Department has designated the Ensenada district as the headquarters for a troop of Cavalry. The troop is to come from the City of Mexico. The Mexican government has granted the Pirámide Mining company of Lower California a patent to thirty acres of land, about sixty miles belowjTia Juana, upon which are located a number of very rich placer gold mineB. The Santa Fe is making great preparations for its "limited," which will again be put in service on September 15. This train will consist entirely of vesti-buled sleeping, dining and drawing-room cars, and will make the run from Los Angeles to Chicago in seventy-two hours. The train will leave that city twice a week until near the end of the year, but through the latter part of December and during January and Febru ary of next year it will be run three times a week. A party of Southern Pacific officials has departed for Mexico for -an inspection trip over the Sonora railway, and it is rumored that their inspection of the property is to be followed by the transfer of the road by the Santa Fe to the Southern Pacific company. The Sonora railway has been traded by the Santa Fe for the line between Mojave and the Needles, belonging to the southern Pacific, hut operated for many years by the Santa Fe under a lease and contract of purchase, but a formal transfer has not yet been made. The strong attraction of the Yuma penitentiary for the citizens of Arizona may be due in part to the opportunities afforded for acquiring an entirely new and improved variety of jag. It is re ported that the prisoners smoke mara guana, a Kind ot weed louna in soutn-ern Arizona, which seems to combine the delectable qualities of opium and whisky. The effect of using maraguana is said to be "hilarious intoxication The will of Dr. Edgar, a pioneer of Southern California, who died recently, contains the following bequests to local institutions: Historical society of Southern California $1500; Roman Catholic Orphans' Heme of Los Angeles, $250 : Protestant Orphans' Home, $250 ; Ladies' Benevolent scjiety, $500; commissioners of the SoHiers' Home near Washington, D. C, $2XX); board of fire commissioners of Los Angeles, for the benefit of the firemen. $500. He also bequeathes $500 each -o the public libraries of Los Angeles and San Bernar dino. Notice of intention t build and arti cles of incorporation of the Prescott and Eastern railroad nave Deen niea with the Arizona territorial secretary The new road .-which las already been surveyed, iétorun iron near Prescott to Big Bug, a:distance f about thirty miles. The road will b a feeder of the Santa Fe, Prescott an! Phoenix, and the incorporators are anong the stockholders of the main roid, comprising N. K. Fairbank, Frank M. Murphy. D. M. .Ferry, C. C. Boven,;Simon J. Murphy, J. Morton and Gtorge W. Kreb- i in'., r t The well-known poet of the people, Prof. James G. Clark, cied at his home in Pasadena beptemrerl. tor several months he had been confined to his bed. He was bórn in Coeslantia, N. Y., June 28, 1830, and at the time of his death he . was 6Í years of age. Among the poems that go to make his memory green are The Children of the i Battle Field. Fremont"! Battle Hymn, and Tjie People's Batto Hymn. Two ; of his children survive jim, one living in St. Paul and the ther, James G. j Clark, jr., in Los Angelis. WASHINGTON NOTES. The postoffice department has decided to change the 2-cent 'skmps from carmine to green, to corispond with the color on the stamped evelopes. President McKinley has returned to Washington, and it is xpected that the Cuban question will egage his immediate attention. The residential policy is expected to be the very opposite of active intervention., ;- The state departmet is informed that the standard 24-foot' Jnited States ensign, which went dow with the Vandalia when that war easel was wrecked at Apia, Samoa, has een recovered and presented to the Unted States consul's office at Apia. j The documented cerchan t marine of the United States iJune last numbered 22,633 vessels of!,769,020 gross tons, an increase of 65,0 tons over 1896, and a decrease of 25 vessels. The tonnage of the AtlanU and gulf coasts is 2,647,796, decrea of 20,000 tons. The tonnage of the gmt lakes is 1,410,103 tons, an increase i 86,000 tons. The Pacific coast tohnge was practically stationary. j It is stated thai S. X. D. North oi Boston has been fleeted as superintendent of the next census, and that his appointment wil? be made as soon as the necessary le&lation can be enacted. The president issaid to favor the establishment of apermanent bureau of census, and is Hely to express some views on that suject in his next message to Congresa PACIFIC COAST NEWS Important Information Gathered Around the Coast. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. A Summary of I.ate Events That Are Boiled Down to Suit our Busy Readers. Alameda county has the largest hop crop in its history. Grape pickers up north are getting $1 a day and board or 10 a month more than last vear. The famous Oakland water front case has been decided by the supreme court adversely to the city. A Napa cannery has had to refuse $25,000 worth of orders because of the unusual demands upon it. The title to 160 acres of land in the city of Livermore has been attacked in the Alameda county probate court. The Manufacturers and Producers' Association of San Francisco are compiling a directory of all their members, as well as of all the products of California.Wheat is moving from coast points very freely bound ior the Continent. In the past seven days 22 cargoes have gone from San Francisco, and Portland reports 548,986 bushels shipped. ' Correspondent Suovil thinks $1500 in work and dynamite will make a good trail over the Alaska mountains. The New York World provides the money and the miners are doing the work. Statistics compiled at Tacoma show that upwards of 20,000 people, representing every State in the Union ex- . : o i. 1 i; . I 1 f, " y'""u r aireauy per- rouiiK p.i.H to go to vue runuyie next spring. Washington has made an immense pack of Salmon, one company alone í.ont; o;m,..i t;5. fji,.. inconsequence the market prices of ..nn.j ..un fhi. ,;if k UUBJSfu OU J VUi "Till UV( bnnwn Pope Leo XIII, through Cardinal 1 Rampolla and Archbishop Kearie, has signified his intention of presenting to the Stanford University Library an ex- pensive bound copy of the catalogue of and makepopularCaliforniadriedfruits the famous Vatican library. 0f all kinds, grapes, raisins and wines, Fourteen returned Klondykers reach- and thereby create a demad for them ed Seattle, bringing about $1,000 apiece, where none has heretofore existed. All agree that the coming winter will Also to induce beet sugar manufactories see scurvy, starvation and death slong and various other industries to locate the Yukon. Nobodv is getting tlm ugh . ,D that valley, increasing its population, by the land route, and many are coming ' ila industries, the demand for its pro-home, j ducts, and adventures of all sorts that T, ' . . i 1 . -iii are beneficial and will promote and se- I hprp hfia napn fit lata finnou un lila ! . opium mysteriously smuggled into Fol- i som prison. A roll of opium a coupie of inches long was found in a hollow place in the drawbead on one of the cars of the quarry railroad. The mystery i thus solved. ' John A. Pirtle of Los Angeles and his j tnat thu vear lhere will be several elec-associates have obtained a 50-vear fran- ; tl0ns neld ln different places in the state, chise to transmit electrical power from ' and the question was whether such elec-the Kaweah river td the town of Visalia. 1 tlona and the selection of the election Work is to be commenced in three ! commissioners should be under the old months and the plant is to be com- J8 or under the law passed by the late pleted in a year. legislature. The opinion has a partic- " , . , , ular bearing on this citv and Sacra- The big forest fire which has been mento, besides one or two other cities raging ir1 the mountains about the head-: here elections will beheld this year, waters of the Carmel river, Monterey The Attorney-General 's opinion was county, for the past two weeks has at ; piven in refspon8e to an inquiry by last been checked. The loss in pastur- ; Mavor Hubbard of Sacramento. He age and dry feed for stock, as well as j,old8 that tne llew act ia inoperative valuable timber, is very heavy. j prior to 1808, and does not govern pri- The trouble over lots in Juneau, j mary elections held before that time. Alaska, has at last been decided by a 1 The Attorney-General maintains that decision of Judge Delaney. Possessory 1 primary officers can only be selected in rights of squatters who have improved a year in which a general election is to their holdings are held to be good against invasion. Titles given by the original locator are by the decision ren- ..... . j .., ...v,.. dered valid, even though the holders : - - Jt - i - j Surveys for the extension of the San Joaquin Valley railroad to Point Rich mond have been completed from that point to near Antioch. Work has also begun across the marsh from Stockton to the point of union. The surveying will be completed in time for the beginning of work on the bay branch of the road at the opening of the new year, when it is expected that the road will have reached Bakersfield. . Arrangements have been completed for a match between Goddard and Sharkey, to take place at San Francisco during the latter part of November. The National Athletic club of San Francisco offered a $10,000 purse for the match, but nothing definite has been settled in this regard, and articles have not been signed. Goddard is now in Ireland and will leave at once for this country. Sharkey is in San Francisco. By the decisive vote of 14 to 4 the regents of the University of California denied the application of the Hahnemann Medical college for affiliation with the State institution. Those who voted in favor of the proposition were Regents Budd, Jeter, John E. Budd and Foote. Those who voted against it were Regents Kellogg, Slack, Phelps, Denicke, Rowell, Martin, Houghton, Mrs. Hearst. Rodgers, Hallidie, Mayre, Wallace, Hellman and Reinstein. This action of the regenta ends a bitter and long-continued fight between the rival schools of medicine in favor of allopaths. I According to the report of Deputy Fish Commissioner Babbitt, the run of salmon in the rivera this fall is the largest for many years. The canneries have more fish than they can handle, and thousands of fish are spoiling for the want of proper facilities to handle them. From all accounts the pack this year is at least 60 per cent larger than it was last year. This fall the canneries have put up 23,000 cases as against 13,000 last fall. The total pick for the season will be about 41,600 in round num bers. All that is packed is that which is left over the market supply. The farmers have salted down large quantities this year. The great run may be accounted for by the excellent care taken to preserve the fish when on their way to the spawning grounds. William Price of McKeesport, Pa., is at Seattle, Wash., representing theheavily-capitalized company of Pennsylvani-ans who are to erect and operate a steel plant at Los Angeles. Mr. Price states that work wilt be commenced within sixty days and be pushed to completion. The prime object of the large plant which will be erected will be the manufacture of tin plates. The process will be started in a blast furnace and ended with the shipment of high-class tin plates to their destination.. An official report filed at the custom house at Port Townsend, Wash., Sep tember 13, by Inspector Webber, whose detail has been at Point Roberts for the past three months, shows -that the catch of the fishing season just closed is the largest ever known in the northwest. The Alaska packing company at Point Roberts put up 95,000 cases. Al-togeher 2,500,000 of fish were caught off the mouth of the Fraser river during the season, and nearly as many bump-back salmon were taken from the traps and left on mud flats to die and decay. As a result of the unexpectedly large run this Beason, fishermen predict a light run next season. Prices for fish range from 10 to 25 cents usually, but thifJ the fishermen were glad to ge at 3 cent . Recently a joint county organization representing Kings, Tulare, Kern and Fresno counties, was formed at Fresno, "ndef tl?e fclVe ftlí C111 .Callfra Developing Association. It elected offi- f i . . . ,-1 I, J CCTS asfollowB: President, Fulton G, Berry of Fresno; vice-president, Sena- tor S. C. Smith of Kern: secretary. John Reichman of Fresno; treasurer, Sus Mitchell of Tulare. It will be the purpose of . this association to exhibit '' cure better conditions. Atty.-Gen. W. F. Fitzgerald has rendered a very important opinion relative to the holding of primary elections this year. It is particularly important at the present time, in view of the fact be neltl. Secretary Alger is now engaged in the attempt to solve the questioin of how to tu )ie8 into the Klondyke gold j regions and thereby prevent the threat- eneu starvation 01 many miners. xne great Yukon river, which formed the main reliance of the miners as a means of getting supp'lies to Dawson, without doubt has already closed to naviagtion by boats, and a movement via Chilcoot is almost impossible. The problem, therefore is a hard one and has taxed the best thought of General Alger and the cabinet officers and the President, by whom the subject has been earnestly discussed. Now, however, it is believed by the Secretary that, by means of a novel character of transportation, supplies into the gold country may be provided, even in the midst of Alaskan winter. He has opened correspondence indirectly with a Chicago inventor, who nmkes locomotives specially adapted to the navigation of the Yukon when frozen thickly. With a few of these machines placed on the river it is hoped that a sufficient supply of food and other neccessary stores may be carried up the Yukon to relieve all distress among miners. The Secretary has already had some experience with this kind of locomotive, so that the scheme is not as radical an experimentas at first thought to he. At Oak Park, a Chicago suburb, Congregational people have established a camp, with tents, hammocks, etc., for the mothers and children of Chicago's river ward. Each party is allowed to remain a week, and the experiment is a great success. NUMBER 42 FROM FOREIGN LANDS. The treaty of peace between Turkev and Greece has been signed. Hon. Henry W. Sage, the well-known philanthropist, is dead, aged 83. Argentine is preparing a retaliatory tariff against the United States. Emperor Nicholas is desirous of pacifying the Poles. His recent visit to Warsaw was for that purpose. A special from Buenos Ayres says that it is feared that the harvest will be almost entirely destroyed by locusts. Andrew Carnegie has bought Ski bo castle, with 28,000 acres of Jhe best shooting and fishing land in Scotland.'. Germany will attempt retaliation against United States tariff rates by practical prohibition of the importation of meats from America. Prominent Guatemalan ' refugees, traveling for their health, arrived at San Francisco with accounts of political chaos in Central America. Prices in Japan are now steadily rising, orders on a large scale having been received from abroad by many of the foreign firms in Yokohama. Hawaii's legislature is believed to have ratified the annexation treaty, and thus to have increased the likelihood of favorable action by the United States senate. Two hundred miners who were fighting fire in a mine near Melbourne, Australia, were overcome with the fumes. Many dead bodies have been taken from the shaft. Advices from Honolulu are that the Ewa plantation has completed its sugar crop. The total output is 15,000 short tons, or 30,000,000 pounds for 189?, the heaviest sugar yield from any single plantation on the island. Acreage is now in for 16,000 tons next season. A Spanish cabinet crisis is likely to result from the action of the Bishop who objected to the looting of the church treasury. A horrible condition-at Havana has been caused by a lack of proper food. Eoborowsky, the Russian explorer, has discovered a place in Central Asia where no rain, but only enow, falls at any time throughout the year. This . . is in the Thibetan highlands, at an altitude of 17,800 feet. The thermometer on June 15 was 12 degrees below zero,. . centigrade. The Bank of England will pay 2,500,-000 to the India government for bills recently sold. Gobi shipments to America will come from France, while-Sydney is preparing a heavy shipment of gold for New York. The fact Is conceded that the gold to be sent to Amer- , ' ica can no longer be postponed. Telegraphic advices from the New-York Herald's correspondent at Rio de Janiero state that the government has cabled to the Rothschilds refusing their offer to lease the Greenwood railroad. The government holds that such a lease would be in opposition to the interests of the country. . -. The British forces are advancing against the revolting natives of India. The lower Mohmands have already yielded, but trouble is thought tobe : more serious than a mere revolt of na-ti ves, and the good faith of the ameer of ' ' Afghanistan is seriously questioned. Examination shows marks of the Rus- ,' "-sian bear's paw. -' In the provinces of Tula, Knosk and ' Moscow, Russia, owing to the drouth, winter wheat cannot be sown. The peasants have petitioned the throne to furnish free seeds to the sufferers, owing to the failure of crops. All grass has withered, cattle are dying, while destitution and distress prevail in these and adjoining provinces. . The treaty signed by the representatives of Guatemala, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Salvador has gone into effect. The union is named the Republic of Central America, and the countries forming it take the name of states. The fusion of these states is regarded as of great consequence, especially as securing internal peace in Central America. . An attempt was made to assassinate President Diaz on September 16. He was going to a review of troops through a public park, when an Italian named Arroyo sprang from behind a bush and lunged at him with a poniard. The minister of war seized the man and flung him to the ground, when he was arrested. Diaz escaped injury. The would-be assassin was killed by a mob the following evening. The latest scandal in court circles has set all Europe by the ears. It is reported that the Guelph fund of sixty million marks has been squandered by Emperor William. The fund was the private fortune of the house of Hanover. The English royal family has some claim to it. Much feeling has been engendereil in royal circles. An exhausted carrier pigeon arrived at Logansport, Ind., bearing a message, partly obliterated, of which only -August zh, roie. Andree, could be deciphered. The steamer Belle of Memphisj a snag in the Mississippi river ' island, lust below Chester, 111 a hole forty feet long in he She sunk with ten feet of her decks. About 200 tons o, aboard was saved. f-V: í. i' t. r- 7 f: 7k r."V